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Re: Geert Wilders On Hate Speech In The Koran

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As you may not know, Wilders is being charged with 'hate speech' by the Dutch Courts, and they've decided to hold his 'trial' just before the elections early next year in the hopes of keeping him from getting elected, a very sleazy tactic on their part.

Is Wilders a hypocrite for calling for the banning of the Koran? Is the Koran hate speech?



Dutch Government's Hypocrisy

It would seem Wilders is right about the Koran, and the Dutch enforcement of 'hate speech' laws is very selective, just as 'hate crime' charges are very selectively enforced here in the U.S.. The Koran should be banned everywhere, but for some reason it gets to hide under the umbrellla of a 'religious' text, even though it's merely a psychopathic fantasy devoted to mass murder and genocide, along with it's sister book, Mein Kampf, also a big seller in the ME and other Muslim countries, and this is no mere coincidence.
Pointing out hate speech is not in itself hate speech. That said, banning the Koran would be a violation of Article 6.

Article 6 does give authority to parliament to set rules in place to "combat or prevent disorders."

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You obviously know nothing about the history of christian religion. Christians NEVER killed in the name of God? I guess the crusades and witch trials are all made up by liberals, eh? That's only 2 examples of a long list.

I'd say if we ban the Koran we don't stop there and ban all religious books.
Let me say it in this way: As a french commander fought in the name of the king of France against Albigensians he was completly "desperated" because the Albigensians and the Catholics lived house by house and no one was able to see a difference between Albigensians and Catholics. So he got an idea and he said to his soldiers: "Kill everyone - god will see who is a good Catholic and will take him in the heaven and who is a bad Albigensian and will send him to hell". No joke - a reality.

Most people see it in this way that all catholics are devils. Lots of people have compassion with the Albigensians. Nearly no one thinks about the murdered catholics. And lots of people are hating in general all Christians for this. I'm personally thinking this commander was an atheist like so many people who are speaking in the name of god. Oh by the way: Do you know why the french king liked to murder the Albigensians in this times? The Albigensians did not like to go to war for him (and also not for anybody else). Maybe they are comparable a little with the Amish people in the USA. What would you personhally do? Kill all Amish and all Americans because you are not able to see a difference between the people? Is "religion" really the key for murder and "areligion" the key for happiness?
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Let me say it in this way: As a french commander fought in the name of the king of France against Albigensians he was completly "desperated" because the Albigensians and the Catholics lived house by house and no one was able to see a difference between Albigensians and Catholics. So he got an idea and he said to his soldiers: "Kill everyone - god will see who is a good Catholic and will take him in the heaven and who is a bad Albigensian and will send him to hell". No joke - a reality.

Most people see it in this way that all catholics are devils. Lots of people have compassion with the Albigensians. Nearly no one thinks about the murdered catholics. And lots of people are hating in general all Christians for this. I'm personally thinking this commander was an atheist like so many people who are speaking in the name of god. Oh by the way: Do you know why the french king liked to murder the Albigensians in this times? The Albigensians did not like to go to war for him (and also not for anybody else). Maybe they are comparable a little with the Amish people in the USA. What would you personhally do? Kill all Amish and all Americans because you are not able to see a difference between the people? Is "religion" really the key for murder and "areligion" the key for happiness?

The Albigensians (Cathars) had become quite popular in the 12th century. The catholic church wasn't too pleased. During a council the doctrine of the Cathars was declared heretical but the group still grew.
Pope Innocent III didn't like that at all. Lots of noblemen who supported the Cathars were excommunicated. First he tried peaceful conversion which wasn't very succesful. He then issued a bull that declared a crusade on the region where most Cathars lived offering the land of the Cathars to anyone willing to fight them.
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No, that was a Mel Brooks scene.

YouTube - Spanish Inquisition the musical
Most people have really very wrong and confusing ideas about the inquisiton - that's all. The inquisition for example used an "advocatus diabolo" - the basic idea: even the devil has the right to be defended. Sure this is a good idea for entertainment and fantastic scenes - but it's more simple a question of justice. In lots of cases the inqusition ends with the sentence: "Now go home and don't be a sinner anymore" - that was all.
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The Albigensians (Cathars) had become quite popular in the 12th century. The catholic church wasn't too pleased. During a council the doctrine of the Cathars was declared heretical but the group still grew.
Pope Innocent III didn't like that at all. Lots of noblemen who supported the Cathars were excommunicated. First he tried peaceful conversion which wasn't very succesful. He then issued a bull that declared a crusade on the region where most Cathars lived offering the land of the Cathars to anyone willing to fight them.
What do you like to say? The Albigensians had nothing to do with Muslims - absolutely nothing.
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What do you like to say? The Albigensians had nothing to do with Muslims - absolutely nothing.
I didn't say they had anything to do with Muslims I was just correcting what you said about the Cathar crusades because you made it sound like religion had nothing to do with them.
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Then why make reference?




Christians NEVER killed or went to war in the name of God, Muslims have.

The actions of those who reside under Sharia Law are taken from the Koran. The Koran in essence is a religious guide for punishment. Now not all Muslims use the Koran as such but those who subscribe to Sharia Law do.

In the Koran there are specific punishments highlighted for specific actions. The Bible doesn't enforce punishment.


Sure Christians have gone to war against Muslims but those wars were over religious philosophy NOT God because Christians and Muslims believe in the same God.

Its the Muslims who have notoriously thought they were Gods "earthly police force" and have made it their business over the years to ENFORCE GODS LAW on people. Its the Muslims who go out of their way to attack "ungodly" people.

Hell, these motherfuckers will kill your ass if you insult God, Christians wont.

That's reality.
No book enforces punishment, enforcement can only come from those who adhere to it.

The Bible does also have "specific punishments for specific actions" as you phrase it.

Example: Deut 21:18-21

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother. and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them

then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city.

And they shall say to the elders of the city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.'

Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil person from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.


This is one example.
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You don't like populists, Stapo? He's a moderate, not a populist, in any case; I don't think he's getting votes from idiots; he's getting them from people who knows what he's saying is right and are rather tired of European PCness.
He is a populist and his voters are idiots. Hell maybe even the Dutch in general are idiots, if certain topics are left out of the political spectrum / out of discussions and only so can be used by a populist.

Anyway European PCness, is just as bad as American PCness imho.
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I agree that he's a populist etc.

But it's also stupid to try to tackle him by going to court. It's possible that they make a anti-establishment martyr of him. The same happened in Belgium with The Vlaams Blok. The party leaders openly admit that the sentence for racism was a good thing for their party.

In the elections shortly after the conviction, election scores boomed from 15% to 25% in Flanders, and it became the biggest party of Belgium.

If Wilders succeeds in turning the debate into establishment vs him, the chances are there he will win. After all, it's crisis time. And everyone knows that people radicalise in difficult times.

Parties shouldn't fight other parties in court, they should fight them in debates and by good governance.
I totally agree and btw never suggested that I agree with him facing trial.

I can imagine that he's happy about it for the attention and free publicity it offers him, but that's another topic.

Anyway people should just ask him what he wants the government to do with bad + violent literature / books; maybe collect them all and burn 'em in a stake?

Damn nice picture to send to the world -Nazi book burning reloaded (Dutch version 09)?

Apart from that how does believing in the government having a say in books, works with his parties name (Free... something).

It's all so ridiculus, that one can't take this populist serious.

Even less one can take his voters serious; recession is hurting the country, brave Dutch soldiers are dieing in foreign lands...... , but hell who needs answers for such topics, if a political clown talks about the real issue; the Koran.
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The Bible does also have "specific punishments for specific actions" as you phrase it.

Example: Deut 21:18-21

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother. and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them

then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city.

And they shall say to the elders of the city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.'

Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil person from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.


This is one example.
Yeah, but that kid DESERVES to be stoned to death. The Koran is just hate speech.

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I didn't say they had anything to do with Muslims I was just correcting what you said about the Cathar crusades because you made it sound like religion had nothing to do with them.
It was no crusade - it was murder. Catholics and Albigensians lived door by door without any problem until the murderers of the french king came and murdered both groups of people because the people did not do the will of the political leaders. Modern times.
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He is a populist and his voters are idiots. Hell maybe even the Dutch in general are idiots ...
Why are you astonished if I call you an "antifascistic Nazi"? Most people from the Netherlands are very friendly and smiling very nice while seeing the panic in your eyes if they are overtaking you with 120 miles in their caravans.

But to be honest: There are serios discussions abtou the Islam in Europe - and in all of this discussions always happens the same: The people are speaking about Christians and Crucades. But specially people from the left wing are not speaking about the djihad, the situation of Christians in the Muslim world and/or the situation of the human rights. And they don't like to speak about why integration of Muslims in Europe seems in lots of cases to be nearly impossible. There a lots of taboos in all this public discussions (="political correctness") and always the Christians are seen as criminals - although Christians have absolutely nothing to do with this problems. A lot of Christians are helping Muslims in Europe - and I never heard about any other group of people (except Jews) what is really helping Muslims. Neverthelless: The problems of the Islam have nothing to do with the christian religion or the jewish religion.
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... but hell who needs answers for such topics, if a political clown talks about the real issue; the Koran.
I need answers.
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Yeah, but that kid DESERVES to be stoned to death. The Koran is just hate speech.

Probably, both texts can qualify as hate speech. But under the Dutch constitution, the right to practice one's faith is guaranteed. That guarantee comes with a caveat regarding responsibility under the law. So those muslims, referenced in the OP, that respect Dutch law are in compliance. The fact they are in compliance demonstrates that the Koran per se is not the issue. As I pointed out, the Dutch Constitution does give the parliament the authority to set rules if they see fit (that fall under certain categories).

The OP posted a segment of one speech, undoubtedly to support their own point of view. The Netherlands is not a bigoted country. Their constitution proves that. If there is a genuine case to be made against Geert Wilders, then it will have to made in the Dutch court.
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Although 40-50 million babies are murdered every year within their own mothers from the so called "civilized world" there exists no legitimation of only one christian confession to do so. Murder is in all cases not allowed and it's always murder. But I'm asking myself what this has to do with the Islam and why Christians have to explain their religion and its morality if the people don't understand what the Islam is and why Muslims are doing crimes.
I was just pointing out examples of why it's ignorant to say that christians never killed in the name of god. That's all, no explaining required (at least not from this human. God, I believe, does expect you to spread the love).
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